1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
46Nevertheless the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.
Cross References
John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
John 5:25Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 6:39And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all that he has given me I would not lose from it, but I will raise it up at the last day.
John 6:57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, also he who eats me, that man will also live because of me.
John 6:68Simon Peter therefore answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? Thou have sayings of eternal life.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:36-51
The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,… Read the whole commentary →